Juno and Paycock with Mark Rylance and J Smith-Cameron
Juno and The Paycock: Mark Rylance’s charisma knits together a crowded production that needs room to breathe
Mark Rylance mesmerised audiences with his Olivier Award-winning turn as visionary layabout Rooster Byron in Jerusalem. Now, he’s playing a boozy ne’er-do-well of a more old-fashioned sort in Irish playwright Sean O’Casey’s 1924 classic,
Juno and the Paycock with Mark Rylance and J Smith-Cameron: a show too in thrall to its stars
Among Mark Rylance’s qualities as an actor is, it transpires, the ability to convey a man utterly stupefied by drink. As Jack Boyle – the feckless Paycock of Seán O’Casey’s 1924 comic melodrama – he stumbles into the crumbling Dublin apartment he shares with his wife,
Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance and J Smith Cameron fail to spark
In part, this is thanks to the play itself, written in 1924, and perhaps the most difficult of the author’s “Dublin Trilogy” to stage, thanks to its combustible mixture of comedy and tragedy. But Warchus has chosen to exacerbate its problems, turning the comedic elements into vaudeville farce and tipping the conclusion into portentous solemnity.
Photos: J. Smith-Cameron, Mark Rylance, & More in JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK
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Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud Theatre review: Succession star J. Smith-Cameron is splendid
Succession star J. Smith-Cameron is splendid - 3/5 Despite the actress’s great performance, Sean O’Casey’s tragicomedy has dated badly and the production plays it strangely like a black-and-white slap
The Arts Desk11h
Juno and the Paycock, Gielgud Theatre review - a shockingly original centenary revival of O'Casey's tragi-comedy
"Captain" Jack Boyle is a fantasist, a mythmaker, a storyteller. He relishes an audience - usually his sidekick, Joxer. There ...
London Theatre4h
'Juno and the Paycock' review — a dominant Mark Rylance relishes the vaudevillian comedy in Séan O’Casey’s play
Read our review of Irish tragicomedy *Juno and the Paycock*, starring Mark Rylance and J. Smith-Cameron, now in performances ...
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Juno and the Paycock
Juno and the Paycock premièred at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924, only two years after when it is set, shortly after the ...
BroadwayWorld3h
Review: JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, Gielgud Theatre
A cost of living crisis, people being fit to work but choosing not to, poverty, nationalism and women's control of their own ...
broadway.com5d
October on the London Stage: Mark Rylance Leads a Classic, Adrien Brody Makes His London Debut and The Lehman Trilogy Returns
From name-heavy West End revivals to bracing new dramas, October in London is giving pride of place to the play. Offerings ...
The New York Times1mon
Mark Rylance
By Lisa Kennedy Mark Rylance is back in a role that won him a Tony more than a decade ago. But this London production isn’t just coasting on past kudos. By Matt Wolf In this gangster exercise ...
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Juno and the Paycock – Gielgud Theatre | Review
There were, occasionally, some worthy observations in this play that goes on for at least twenty minutes too long.